I want to be able to mount my usb thumb drive without having to authenticate myself. i read the notice that pops up which says either mount the device as root or recompile ntfs-3g with fuse support and make it setuid root. i downloaded the source for the newest ntfs-3g and compiled it as it said.

I also executed these commands so that I could mount any ntfs drive as an unprivileged user:

I'm a bit baffled hereI should say that I don't have anything with ntfs on USB - only fatWhen you connect the USB drive it is mounted by pmount that is a mount in user spaceSee man pmount orhttp://linux.die.net/man/1/pmount

ok but how can i make it automatically use pmount when i insert the usb drive? the drive had fat32 on it i believe when i first got it but i reformatted it with ntfs because i use it most on windows and to transport large files (its a 4gb flash drive)